Stephen F. Lynch

Stephen Francis Lynch (31 March 1955-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MA 9) from 2001 to 2013, succeeding Joe Moakley and preceding William R. Keating, and from MA 8 frrom 2013, succeeding Mike Capuano.

Biography
Mike Capuano was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1955, and he became involved with labor unionism while working as an ironworker. At age 30, he was elected president of the executive board of Iron Workers Local 7, and he led a failed three-week labor strike in 1988. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1995 to 1996, in the State Senate from 1996 to 2001, and in the US House of Representatives from 2001. Lynch was strongly pro-labor and was stauncly liberal on economic and environmental issues, while he was moderate on social issues.